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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Prime Minister’s 50 Km Motorcade Show In Gujarat Campaign Is A Big Boost
By Sushil Kutty The uncharitable will say Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy should have given way to the ambulance much earlier, not wait for a turn in the road, and that the ambulance, on a medical emergency, must have been held up on the straight behind Modi’s poll-festooned saffron-garlanded...
Building A Welfare State Requires A Huge Increase In Fiscal Efforts
By Prabhat Patnaik The post-second world war period had seen a spate of welfare state measures in the advanced capitalist countries, especially in Europe, in emulation of what the Soviet Union was effecting. Capitalism had to accept these measures, notwithstanding its hostility to them, because it was in the...
New Data Protection Bill Will Be A Boon To Indian Big Business
By Prabir Purkayastha The new avatar of the Indian Data Protection Bill 2022 is not simply the rebirth of the earlier 2019 one. The objective of the earlier Data Protection Bill 2019 was to give a legal framework for the Supreme Court’s Puttuswamy judgement of privacy as a fundamental...
Digitalisation In Agriculture Is Going To Adversely Affect Small Farmers
By Ravula Venkaiah The Narendra Modi government has recently signed an MoU and released recently to introduce a policy called digitalisation in the agriculture sector. What are the benefits of it? What are the losses? Discussions are going on. Recently a discussion forum was held in Delhi under the...
Gehlot, Pilot Band Together For Rajasthan Leg Of Bharat Jodo Yatra
By Rahil Nora Chopra The game of check and mate has started in Congress, with speculations abound, rife and the assembly polls due next year in Rajasthan, looming large. The AICC has had to step in to manage and control the party’s image, which is once again in tatters...
December 6 Is Again A Reminder Of The Damage To Indian Ethos By Sangh Parivar
By Krishna Jha The 30th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition is December 6. The wound is still livid. Razing down of Babri Masjid was a major step towards destroying our composite culture. It was also a part of the Ayodhya strategy of Hindutva forces that awaits its completion. To...
BJP’s Campaign For Gujarat Polls Has Turned Vicious And Toxic
By Prakash Karat The BJP campaign for the Gujarat assembly election gives an insight as to how Gujarat became the laboratory for the Hindutva forces and how the corporate-communal axis was forged that became known later as the Gujarat model. Some of Amit Shah’s assertions in his election speeches...
Take Over Of NDTV Channel By Adanis Is A Sad Day For Liberal Secular Camp
By Sushil Kutty Too much has been spoken and written about how the Adani Group juggled shares and equity, whatever they might mean to the common layman, to snatch ownership of NDTV and run away with it such that it became the hottest story among a bevy. ‘O! No.’...
India’s GDP Growth Has Slowed Down But Overall, The Trends Are Positive
By K R Sudhaman India’s economic growth might have dipped to 6.3 per cent in July-September quarter of this financial year but the good news is the slide is not going to be as pronounced in the whole year. The year 2022-23 may still end up with GDP growth...
Serious Implications Of Mainpuri Lok Sabha Polls For Akhilesh Yadav
By Pradeep Kapoor Aware of the serious implications on his political future of the results of Mainpuri by-polls for Lok Sabha, Akhilesh Yadav has mobilised the support of his family and party leaders to retain the seat won by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav who recently passed away. Samajwadi...
